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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Hilarious bootleg NES game review: Titanic

The ever-irascible CinnamonPirate brings us another import bootleg review, this time of an NES game based on the popular flick Titanic.

Yes, THAT Titanic.

From the review:

I have a hard time imagining what possessed anyone to make this game. The board meeting probably went something like this:

President: OK guys, we have this terrible RPG engine for the Famicom. How can we squeeze more money out of it? Developer: Well, Titanic has been popular with students studying English. What if we make a game based on the movie? President: But how will it work? I mean, the only character you could play as would be Jack, and he dies. Developer: Don’t you see! An RPG where the player’s character dies! It will be revolutionary! President: Make it so.

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